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Juneteenth

Freedom and independence did not begin for everyone on July 4, 1776 in the United States. For those enslaved people of the Africa diaspora freedom would come on June 19, 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. That day is celebrated as Juneteenth, or Freedom Day. Despite the illegalization of slavery, there are some who not free and continue to fight for their liberation. In some ways, slavery did not end but adopted another name.

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32 items

  • BookNew York : The Modern Library, 2021. — FICTION ELLISON RALPH
  • BookNew York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2021] — 394.263 G66O
  • To Walk About in Freedom

    the Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner

    Emberton, Carole,
    BookNew York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022] — 306.362 E53ZT
  • Slave No More

    Self-liberation Before Abolitionism in the Americas

    Helg, Aline, 1953-
    BookChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019] — RAMOS 306.362 H47S
  • A Question of Freedom

    the Families Who Challenged Slavery From the Nation's Founding to the Civil War

    Thomas, William G., 1964-
    BookNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2020] — 306.362 T46ZQ
  • Freedom

    the Overthrowing of the Slave Empires

    Walvin, James
    BookLondon ; New York : Pegasus Books, 2019. — 306.362 W24F
  • Black Ghost of Empire

    the Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

    Manjapra, Kris, 1978-
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2022. — 306.362 M27B
  • Agency of the Enslaved

    Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World

    Dunkley, Daive A., 1973-
    BookLanham : Lexington Books, [2013] — 306.362 D91A 2013
  • Doctoring Freedom

    the Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation

    Long, Gretchen
    BookChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2012] — 362.1 L84D 2012
  • The Thin Light of Freedom

    the Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America

    Ayers, Edward L., 1953-
    BookNew York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017] — 973.73 A97T
  • Seizing Freedom

    Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All

    Roediger, David R.
    BookBrooklyn : Verso, 2014. — 305.0097 R71S 2014
  • How Free Is Free?

    the Long Death of Jim Crow

    Litwack, Leon F.
    BookCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009. — 323.11 L78H
  • Barracoon

    the Story of the Last "black Cargo"

    Hurston, Zora Neale
    BookNew York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — BIO LEWIS C
  • South to Freedom

    Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

    Baumgartner, Alice, 1987-
    BookNew York : Basic Books, 2020. — 973.7115 B34S
  • The Kidnapping Club

    Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War

    Wells, Jonathan Daniel, 1969-
    BookNew York : Bold Type Books, 2020. — 974.71 W45K